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• Talbot Magazine

  Talbot Celebrates Largest Incoming Class in a Decade

  Doug Geringer — January 08, 2025

  The word is spreading about Talbot’s excellent degree programs! While Biola University’s overall Fall 2024 enrollment is encouraging at 5,448 total...

• Talbot Magazine

  Retirement Tributes: Winter 2024

  Talbot Magazine Staff — January 08, 2025

  Several beloved Talbot School of Theology professors retired in 2024 after faithfully impacting thousands of students during their teaching...

• Talbot Magazine

  Faculty Profile: Winter 2024

  J.P. Moreland (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy)

  Ashish Naidu — January 08, 2025

  J.P. Moreland stands as one of today’s leading Christian philosophers, blending elite academic scholarship with a compelling ability to engage...

• Talbot Magazine

  Shelf Life: Winter 2024

  Talbot Magazine Staff — January 08, 2025

  Engaging the Old Testament: How to Read Biblical Narrative, Poetry, and Prophecy Well Dominick Hernández Associate Professor of Old Testament...

• Talbot Magazine

  Book Excerpt: Engaging Jesus with Our Senses: An Embodied Approach to the Gospels

  Talbot Magazine Staff — January 08, 2025

  Smells are potent, in part because they carry connections in our brains to memory and emotion. This is why a scent can immediately transport us to...

• Talbot Magazine

  Alumni Profile: Winter 2024

  Gary Osmundsen (M.A. ‘06), Philosophy Professor at GCU

  Ben Shin — January 08, 2025

  Dr. Gary Osmundsen (M.A. ’06) grew up in a loving home but felt spiritually empty, until a life-changing encounter with Christ that eventually led...

• Talbot Magazine

  Best of the Blog: Winter 2024

  The Problem with Imitating Jesus

  Kyle Strobel — January 08, 2025

  There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. If I can...

• Talbot Magazine

  Talbot’s Role in Global Evangelism

  Ed Stetzer — January 08, 2025

  Trees frame key themes in the biblical storyline. In the opening chapters of Creation, God placed two trees in the garden: the tree of life and the...

• Talbot Magazine

  How to Navigate Conversations About Sexual Identity

  What Every Pastor Needs to Know

  Ben Shin — January 08, 2025

  How can pastors better care for people in their churches who are wrestling with complex questions about sexuality and gender? Increasingly,...

• The Good Book Blog

  Was the Old Covenant Defective?

  Kenneth Way — January 08, 2025

  In Hebrews 8:7-8 we read: “For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For He finds...

• Winsome Conviction

  WCP in the Veritas Forum's Best Of Clips for 2024

  Tim Muehlhoff — January 07, 2025

  In the fall of 2024, Tim spoke at the Veritas Forum at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The clip from this moderated talk, "Should We Pick & Choose...

• Think Biblically

  Have We Lost Our Minds?

  with Stan Wallace

  Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — January 07, 2025

  What does it mean to say that we are body and soul both? Have the neurosciences done away with the soul? Are we little more than our physical stuff...

• Biola News

  Biola Launches Chinese Theology Research Initiative

  The initiative was established alongside the Institute for Advanced Studies of Chinese Christianity (IASCC)

  Sarah Dougher — January 06, 2025

  Biola University launched the Biola Research Initiative for Advanced Studies of Chinese Theology in November 2024, an initiative established...

• Biola News

  Nursing Students Serve Those in Need Across the World

  Five Biola nursing students provided care to underserved communities in the Philippines and Indonesia in October

  Sarah Dougher — January 06, 2025

  Five nursing students took their skills abroad in October, with three traveling to the Philippines and two to Indonesia. For over 10 years, the...

• Winsome Conviction

  Episode 113: What Do I Do With My Same-Sex Attraction?

  Rachel Gilson, Tim Muehlhoff — January 06, 2025

  On today’s episode, Rachel Gilson speaks with Tim about sexuality, same-sex attraction, and living faithfully as a follower of Jesus. The...

• The Good Book Blog

  Storing up Your Word in My Heart

  Kevin Lawson — January 03, 2025

  How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your...

• The Good Book Blog

  Guardando Tu Palabra en Mi Corazón

  Kevin Lawson — January 03, 2025

  ¿Con qué limpiará el joven su camino? Con guardar tu palabra. Con todo mi corazón te he buscado; No me dejes desviarme de tus mandamientos. En...

• Think Biblically

  Focusing on the Family Today

  with Jim Daly

  Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — December 31, 2024

  What new challenges have emerged to the family in the past few years? How is the family doing today versus in the past? What biblical principles...

• The Good Book Blog

  Misunderstanding Genre in Biblical Studies: A Summary of Recent Developments

  Kenneth Berding — December 27, 2024

  I just finished reading Andrew Judd’s new book, Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical Studies. Judd’s goal was to introduce advanced...

• The Good Book Blog

  Joy to the World Isn’t a Christmas Song? Questioning an Urban Legend

  Kenneth Berding — December 24, 2024

  It has become trendy in recent years to publicly proclaim that Joy to the World was not originally written as a song about Christ’s First Coming,...

• Think Biblically

  We Who Wrestle with God: Book Review

  Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — December 24, 2024

  Jordan Peterson is one of the leading intellectuals of our day. He is a mega-selling author, psychologist, and popular influencer. In this...

• The Good Book Blog

  Herod, the King of the Jews

  Gary Manning Jr — December 23, 2024

  When the magi showed up in Bethlehem, they asked “Where is he who was born King of the Jews?” (Matt 2:2). Why did this question cause Herod to...

• Winsome Conviction

  Episode 112: Surprise People Like G.K. Chesterton

  Tim Muehlhoff, Mark Muha — December 23, 2024

  We regularly host episodes speaking with people who are doing civility right. These “Reports From The Front” provide insights and illustrations...

• The Good Book Blog

  Growing Toward Maturity in Christ

  Kevin Lawson — December 20, 2024

  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body,...

• The Good Book Blog

  Crecer en la Madurez en Cristo

  Kevin Lawson — December 20, 2024

  Ahora me gozo en lo que padezco por vosotros, y cumplo en mi carne lo que falta de las aflicciones de Cristo por su cuerpo, que es la iglesia; de...